Chapter 310: Settle in
After Guo Jing and Hua Zheng's marriage was discussed, the date was set for January. For this reason, Wan Yankang ordered a big banquet for the guests, invited all the big and small people on the grassland to Chita, and set up a flowing water banquet for three days and three nights.
After Yan Kang's victory, although there was no indiscriminate killing, many old and young people in the begging Yan Department still kept beating drums in their hearts, for fear that White Horse City would settle accounts after the autumn.
After all, in the big battle in the winter of last year, there were too many people killed on both sides, and the blood feud that was formed could not be resolved so quickly.
It wasn't until the marriage of Guo Jing and Hua Zheng was completed that Wan Yankang announced that Guo Jing was his brother-in-law, and the old people of the begging department were completely relieved.
Tuo Lei was drunk in the past three days, and finally hugged Guo Jing and cried and laughed, but he let go of his knots from then on, and he didn't want revenge anymore, and he didn't have the slightest idea of returning to the country.
Wanyankang took the opportunity to implement the new grassland policy, and he divided the thousands of miles of grassland of the Qiyan Department into 280,000 households for management.
For every 10,000 households, there should be a chief executive and a military chief, and the policy of separating the military from the government should be implemented.
The Chief Executive is called the head of the household and is responsible for various government affairs such as taxation and trade.
The military commander of every 10,000 households shall be a battalion commander, maintain a standing military strength of one battalion, and be ready for dispatch at any time. All other men of appropriate age are listed as reserves.
Most of these household chiefs are people of high moral standing in the tribe, and most of the military governors of these ten thousand households are served by the old men of White Horse City, and military judges are also dispatched.
Although the leaders of the beggar department have a lot of complaints about this, they have to suppress their opinions in their hearts. The ordinary herdsmen were overjoyed.
Without him, the new owner is benevolent, and the tax is a full thirty percent less than before.
The major military and political events were established, and Wan Yankang devoted his energy to the reconstruction of Wushuang.
After the marriage between Guo Jing and Hua Zheng ended, he ordered a re-selection on the grassland, and there were more than 3,000 people who reached the standard of the Wushuang reserve team.
And among the more than 3,000 people selected, most of them are old people in the cowardly Xue army.
Wan Yankang secretly sighed many times that if these cowardly Xue troops could have unparalleled equipment configuration, the outcome of this battle would definitely be reversed.
These more than 3,000 newly selected people must go through extensive training such as Chinese language learning and political study in order to be truly selected as unequaled.
Reading and reading are extremely nerve-wracking in the eyes of most grassland people, and many of the selected people have retreated because of this.
But more people chose to stay.
The salaries of several times that of ordinary troops, the best armor and war horses, and Tengger's pro-army, all of these are of great attraction to these warriors.
For this ace army, Wan Yankang takes it very seriously, and he personally supervises the daily tactical training.
After preliminary training and screening, there are more than 2,200 people who can finally return to White Horse City with Yan Kang. Although more than 2,000 people are still in the enlightenment stage in sinicization, basic tactical literacy and loyalty are no longer a problem.
When the cool breeze at the end of summer spread all over the grassland, Wan Yankang finally arranged all the major events on the grassland, and after leaving Ye Siming to sit in Chita, he couldn't wait to lead the army back to White Horse City.
When the army appeared twenty miles outside the White Horse City, the welcoming team had already lined up several miles outside the city, Wan Yankang couldn't suppress his eagerness, and shouted: "Brothers, Ben Shuai is one step ahead!" Then he urged Xiao Hei to run up.
In the army behind him, there were bursts of laughter, and everyone unconsciously urged the horses to speed up.
The journey of ordinary horses' meals, Wan Yankang only took a cup of tea to run, and he had already rushed to the city.
Seeing Xiao Hei's majestic posture like black lightning, the soldiers lined up outside the city to greet him couldn't help but shout.
With the cheers of "handsome and mighty", Wanyan Kangfei dismounted, stopped in front of Huang Rong steadily, and gently hugged his beloved wife: "Rong'er, what are you doing when you go out of the city!" ”
The child in Huang Rong's belly is six or seven months old, and although she is wearing a robe, she is also quite pregnant. was embraced by Wan Yankang in public, and Huang Rong's face was flushed with shame: "Everyone is watching!" ”
Wanyan Kang laughed, let go of Huang Rong, turned his head and hugged Li Mochou and Tian Xiaowan on the side into his arms.
"Young Master!" Tian Xiaowan also looked embarrassed and coquettish.
"Alright, let's talk in the evening!" After Yan Kang said softly, he let go of the second daughter and began to shake hands with the civil and military forces in the city one by one.
In a few moments, the army arrived, and the cheers of victory shook the earth.
On the first day of return, the civil and military forces in the city were very sensible, and they didn't come to disturb Yan Kang, so that he could have a good relationship with his three wives.
Tian Xiaowan and Li Mochou have been back in the city for more than a month, and after they returned to the city, they saw that Huang Rong was heavy, so they chose to stay together, and only sent a letter to Yan Kang to report his safety.
After returning to the house for a little warmth, Wan Yankang asked how the two of them were after the ethereal peak.
Li Mochou glanced at Yan Kang and said lightly: "Xiao Wan." ”
Xiao Wan grinned, and began to tell the follow-up story of the two of them left on the Ethereal Peak.
Soon after Yankang went down the mountain, Li's mother dispersed as scheduled, and three days after she dispersed, there was indeed an enemy under the mountain.
The enemy was not a bystander, it was led by Li Zongbao, a general of Western Xia, who led the crowd to attack.
Li Zongbao was born in the clan, and he can be regarded as brave and strategic, and in the Western Xia Army, he can be regarded as the No. 2 person. This person also didn't know where to learn about Li's mother's dispersal period, and invited several generals who were also planted by Li's mother with life and death charms, and collected many martial arts masters, trying to attack the Ethereal Peak and coerce Li's mother to obtain the antidote.
Li Zongbao's operation is almost the same as when the seventy-two cave masters rebelled against Tianshan Tong's grandmother.
It's just that the people who rebelled back then were only a group of martial arts masters who had been suppressed by Grandma Tong for many years.
And this time, Li Zongbao took him up the mountain, in addition to the dozens of martial arts masters who were lured by coercion, there were also a thousand elite soldiers carefully selected by him.
Li Zongbao knew the art of war well and made full preparations in advance.
He first ordered his soldiers to cover it with bows and arrows and shoot at the other end of the chain bridge, so that the Vulture Palace would not have any chance of breaking the bridge.
Then, by a group of masters, with light skills, quickly crossed the iron rope and occupied the opposite bank.
Finally, planks were laid to lead the army across the bridge.
In the face of the attack of Li Zongbao's army with a rain of arrows, whether it was the people of the Vulture Palace or Li Mochou, they could only avoid their edge and let the masters under Li Zongbao cross the chain bridge.
When several people crossed the chain bridge, as soon as the rain of arrows on the opposite side stopped, Li Qingchen, Li Mochou and Tian Xiaowan immediately killed with swords.
There are a total of forty-three masters led by Li Zongbao, half of whom are from the Yipintang of Western Xia, and half of them are people from the rivers and lakes he invited from all over the country with a lot of money. Among the more than 40 martial arts masters, the person with the highest martial arts is only between the second-rate and the first-class.
If Mother Li's skills are not damaged, she alone can send these dozens of people clean. But if it was only Li Qingchen and the swordsmen of the Vulture Palace, they would definitely not be able to withstand the impact of so many masters.
Li Zongbao's abacus was wonderful, but he didn't expect that there were many more variables on this ethereal peak.
Li Mochou and Tian Xiaowan made one of the ancient tomb swordsmanship, and the other made the Quanzhen swordsmanship, under the combination of the two swords, they were the five peerless people, and they had to fight the enemy seriously in order to win.
Li Qingchen's kung fu, after Yan Kang's training, has grown a lot better than before, and he can also be ranked among the world's first-class masters.
The masters invited by Li Zongbao only had the ability to parry under the sword of the three women, and they had no power to fight back. Seeing that several people in front of him were killed by swords, and even those who were forced to fall off the cliff, the remaining thirty people turned around and ran back.
Li Qingchen and the three of them did not chase back, but quickly retreated, not giving Li Zongbao the opportunity to give the order to release arrows to hurt people.
Seeing this, Li Zongbao almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood.
The first raid was frustrated, and the martial arts masters who escaped with their lives refused to die in vain. Li Zongbao said evilly, multiplied the conditions he had promised, and lured the various advanced martial arts of the Vulture Palace to be chosen by everyone.
For martial arts people, the attraction of the silver two is far less than that of the martial arts cheats, seeing that the three weak-crowned women can kill them and flee, the remaining thirty people are even more salivating for the various martial arts cheats in the Vulture Palace.
Li Zongbao adjusted the strategy in time, ordered the whole army to take turns to shoot, covered the rain of arrows ten zhang away from the opposite bank, and escorted the more than 30 people to cross the chain bridge safely.
Li Zongbao thought that the three of Li Qingchen who could handle the masters of the Vulture Palace at this time failed in the first wave, but because of insufficient preparation, they did not give full play to the advantage of numbers. There are more than 30 masters on their own side, and as long as they form a joint encirclement, they will never be invincible.
But Li Zongbao used the art of war properly, but he didn't know a word in martial arts.
If you are one line higher, you will be higher and boundless.
The martial arts of Li Qingchen and the three of them, against these more than 30 stragglers, are just a line higher!
Seeing that all the martial arts masters he brought were wiped out, Li Zongbao spat fiercely and scolded angrily: "Waste!" ”
Then he began to order the laying of planks on the iron cables, ready to be pushed by force in the army.
Li Zongbao didn't know that in response to the attack of the army, the Vulture Palace had a complete set of solutions in the era of the child's grandmother: pouring fire oil on the wooden planks, shaking the iron cable, and fighting back with hidden weapons. These methods are enough to make it difficult for ordinary soldiers to cross the bridge.
If you cut a rope when it is critical, you can completely cut off the enemy's idea of attacking by numbers.
In the end, most of the soldiers under Li Zongbao were lost, and it was still difficult to attack the Vulture Palace. At this time, the soldiers under his command had no fighting spirit, and no matter how he coerced and lured, he refused to go on the chain bridge again.
Li Zongbao thought of the horror of the life and death talisman, closed his eyes, and jumped into the abyss.
Although they repelled the attacking enemy, Li Mochou and Tian Xiaowan still insisted on staying in the Ethereal Peak for three months, until Li's mother had recovered her strength, and then she got up to say goodbye.
Li's mother reciprocated Li with a peach and gave her two daughters a small match.
With the accumulation of Tian Xiaowan and Li Mochou, if it were other magical skills, they would definitely insist on not accepting it, but after hearing that Xiao Wuxianggong also has the miraculous effect of rejuvenating the face, which woman can resist such a temptation.
So, the two of them stayed in the Ethereal Peak for half a month longer.
After hearing that the second daughter had learned Xiao Wuxiang Gong, Yan Kang immediately said to Huang Rong very happily: "Rong'er, you have time to learn this magic skill, but it's a good thing!" ”
Huang Rong pursed her lips: "That Vulture Palace Master said that this little skill must not be spread outside!" ”
Wan Yankang was stunned for a moment, so he had to shake his head and say nothing.